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Hey, I hope I will be able finish this post before we lose power here as Hurricane Sandy approaches New Jersey.If you live in a storm-affected area I hope you are safe and ready, and if you have friends and family in the East Coast, pray for the best.

In times of calamity, the best thing to do is not panic but be aware of what you need to prepare like emergency kits.

Aside from personal safety, my #1 tip for you right now is backup your sites and your clients' sites specially if your web host is using data centers in the East Coast.

If you've been blogging for a while, you surely have quoted a source from the web and re-posted an excerpt from the source as part of your article or blog content, enclosing that excerpt in quotation marks. (block quote in Wordpress).

In the latest Webmaster tools video below, Matt Cutts says quoting is not duplicate content, but he says only if you don't quote the entire article from your source (which is tantamount to copying or plagiarism). His video was a reply to the question:

If you've ever tried migrating a database-driven site with a huge database, I am sure you've encountered problems with moving the database to the new server because of the file size upload limitations in PHPMyAdmin, the web-based MySQL administration tool that's provided by most hosting companies.

You can go around this limitation if you have shell access to the server, since you can simply upload the database backup file and restore to the new server through command like, but those without shell access have to find another solution.